Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, [and] make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;
Ver. 7. Hear now, ye Benjamites.] Will ye suffer the kingdom to be translated from your tribe, to David of the tribe of Judah? bestir you, that it may not.
Will the son of Jesse give every one of you.] As I have done, and yet will do. Thus also the Pope tempteth people on his side, as he did Aeneas Sylvius, Luther, and others, by great rewards and preferments; which yet he sometimes but slenderly performeth, as he did to Allin, Sanders, Stapleton, Reynold, Harding, Dr Smith, and other English fugitives, his best champions.